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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 8:25 AM

Jack May rode the Low-V train, Grand Central - 161st ST., which was followed by the Train-of-Many-Colors, on the Yankee Stadium Opening day, and sends these photos:

 
 
 I've just gotten the scans for a few rolls of slides back from the processor.  I'm sending these images
first as they are apropos of Saturday evening, when Clare and I went to the movies and saw It Ain't
Over [till it's over], the new Yogi Berra bioptic.  We enjoyed it very much, especially the scenes at
Yankee Stadium (my old neighborhood) where Yogi played baseball, and Montclair (my new--for the
last 53 years--neighborhood/town), where Yogi retired to (specifically at the end of a fork in the road). 
I think it's worth seeing, especially if you're interested in baseball or just for nostalgia. There were
even one or two scenes showing the 161st Street IRT subway station. 

I took these at that station on opening day at the new stadium a little over a month ago. 
I even rode the Lo-Vs up to 161st Street from Grand Central on that day, March 30. 
The train was very crowded and it was followed by the "train of many colors" that took
on the overload.  Anyway, I hope you will enjoy these views. 

Jack

 

 

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, May 19, 2023 8:58 AM

As a Follolw-up. Jack sends earlier photos from special nostalgia-trip trains that he chased instead of riding.  At Neck Road on the Brighton Line, BU elevated cars, B-types, R!-R9s, and two R10s with an R16:

On the Jerome Avenue Line, the Low-V train, first photo southbound seen from Moshulu Parkway station, and then shown laying-over on the Yard Lead seen from Bedford Avenue station and passed by R142 trains.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Friday, May 19, 2023 9:49 PM

daveklepper

As a Follolw-up. Jack sends earlier photos from special nostalgia-trip trains that he chased instead of riding.  At Neck Road on the Brighton Line, BU elevated cars, B-types, R!-R9s, and two R10s with an R16:

 

Are these the elevated BU cars?  What does BU stand for?  About what year was this taken?  Did those cars come from the Transit museum, the open platforms really look ancient.

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, May 21, 2023 2:50 AM

Brooklyn United Railways - then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, then, after reorganization following the Malbone Street disaster, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.

Cars built around 1897-1899. originally for use behind steam.  Electrified as MUs 1902-1904.  Extensively rebuilt to Q-Typ;es in 1938, enclosed ends with no vestibules, two sxliding doors ech side, M U door control.   1949, rationalization of Queens service, Astoria all BMT with 10-ft.-wide cars, Flushing all-IRT, original trucks removed, and lighter trucks from IRT composite carfs installed for 3rd  Avenue Elevated sdervice.  1955, end of 3rd Av. El., roofs lowere for service on the Myrle Av. El.  this Century redbuilt again as open-platform gate cars for the Museum and for Nostalgia-Train service. 

 

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Posted by MidlandMike on Sunday, May 21, 2023 9:51 PM

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Extensively rebuilt to Q-Typ;es in 1938, enclosed ends with no vestibules, two sxliding doors ech side, M U door control. 

Were those sliding doors cut toward the middle of the car?  If they were, they sure did a nice job of rebuilding the cars.

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, May 22, 2023 3:43 AM

The wood 1200s, half that fleet, were rebuilt to the Q-types for BMT service on the Joint-with-IRT Astoria and Flushing Lines, replacing the 1906 composite open-platform gate cars with convertable sides, in time for the NYC 1939-1940 Words Fair.

BMT still had a number not rerbuilt.  Here they are most of the cars southbound south of Metropolitan Avenue in winter 1947-48 on the Myrtle Avenue Line:

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, May 22, 2023 4:00 AM

Q-Types, upper level, northern track, pre-simplification Queensboro Plaza Station, about to leave for Flushing:

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 12:50 AM

Q-types at Willets Point Blvd. Station on the Flushing Line:

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:35 AM

The photos were posted without any editing, simploy the raw scans.  I* took some time to remove dirt and to correct the tilt one, but some may prefer the originals, anyway.  And I found a third.

 

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Posted by Joseph Frank on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 2:15 PM

Hello Dave

" B U "  stands actually for  BROOKLYN UNION RAILWAYS  for their Elevated Lines.   

Brooklyn Union Railway was soon absorbed into the BRT (Brooklyn Rapid Transit) which later became the BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan transit) after the infamous BRT "Malbone Street Wreck" !

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 1:30 AM

Thanks for correcting a 91-year-old's memory.

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